November and December are months filled with traditions, religious and otherwise. In the Berkshires and Southern Vermont, you can set your clock to certain arts institutions’ offerings, too.
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Category: Arts
The Soul of a Violin
Violin-making is a rare craft. There are fewer than 300 makers in the United States, and Berkshire County has been favored with one such artisan, Francis Morris. Morris studied for a career as a cellist but was introduced to instrument-making while still in high school. He knew right away that the combination of making instruments and music was perfect for him.
Working with fire
Berkshire County’s most famous manipulator of metal is digging around the disheveled entryway to his blacksmith shop in Sheffield, Mass., trying to find an object that marked the turning point in his career.
Words A Plenty
Institutions in the Berkshires and Southern Vermont present a season of new perspectives.
24 hours in Northampton …
Time is precious, and so is Northampton. So we decided to give our travel writer Giulia McDonnell Nieto del Rio just one day for a getaway and to get away to Northampton, a vibrant hub of the Pioneer Valley of Western Massachusetts. Northampton is a place you can rock and you can relax. It has… Continue reading 24 hours in Northampton …
Culture in three dimensions
Institutions in the Berkshires and Southern Vermont present a season of new perspectives.
The maestro
On the 100th anniversary of Leonard Bernstein’s birth, classical music critic and author Andrew L. Pincus recalls the legendary composer and conductor.
New England Center for Circus Arts lifts hopes
NECCA finds a new home.
Berkshire Theatre Festival celebrates 90 years in Stockbridge
Berkshire Theatre Festival enters its tenth decade in Stockbridge.
In the wings
What to look forward to in the art world this spring
